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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
British musicians release a silent album to...
LONDON (AP) — A new album called “Is This What We Want?” features a stellar list of more than 1,000 musicians — and the sound of silence. With contributions from British artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control. The U.K. government is consulting on whether to let tech firms use copyrighted material to...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday. At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists. ESA has since lowered the odds to 0.001%. NASA had it down to...

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Waldo Wolff: “Ojalá Milei se saque de...
Waldo Wolff, ministro de Seguridad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, visitó este martes los estudios de CNN Radio Argentina para conversar sobre la relación con La Libertad Avanza, remarcó sus diferencias con Pilar Ramírez y Horacio Rodríguez Larreta y habló sobre las fugas de los detenidos en las comisarías porteñas. En diálogo con Nacho Girón y el equipo de La Mañana de CNN, Wolff se refirió a la presidente de La Libertad Avanza en la Ciudad de Buenos...

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Stock market today: Wall Street falls toward...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are heading for another drop on Tuesday following the latest signal that inflation, tariffs and other policies coming from Washington have U.S. consumers feeling more pessimistic about the economy. The S&P 500 was down 0.7% in morning trading. It’s coming off a three-day losing streak after setting an all-time high last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 78 points, or 0.2%, as of 10:15 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq...

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Trump meets with French President Macron as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House for talks on Monday at a moment of deep uncertainty about the future of transatlantic relations, with Trump transforming American foreign policy and effectively tuning out European leadership as he looks to quickly end Russia’s war in Ukraine. The two leaders started their day by participating in a virtual meeting with fellow leaders of the Group of Seven economies to discuss the war. Trump...

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‘Conclave’ triumphs at SAG Awards and Timothée...
The papal thriller “Conclave” won best ensemble and Timothée Chalamet took best actor at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, a pair of twists that added a few final wrinkles to an unusually unpredictable awards season. In winning the guild’s top award, Edward Berger’s Vatican-set drama triumphed just as the Catholic Church was praying for the health of Pope Francis, who remained in critical condition Sunday after an asthmatic respiratory crisis. “Conclave” dramatizes the fictional election of...

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Jason Robertson’s hat trick powers Stars past...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Robertson’s third career hat trick lifted the Dallas Stars past the New York Islanders 4-3 on Sunday night for their third straight victory. Jake Oettinger finished with 35 saves and Sam Steel also scored for Dallas, which held on after a late charge by the Islanders. Jean-Gabriel Pageau appeared to tie it for New York in the closing minutes, but the referee ruled Pierre Engvall interfered with Oettinger and the goal was disallowed. Engvall,...

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Nursing injuries, Antetokounmpo and Lillard look like...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bucks stars Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard were supposedly on minutes restrictions, but that wasn’t evident from the box score. Lillard scored 28 points in 38 minutes after missing Milwaukee’s previous game with a hamstring injury, and Antetokounmpo had 23 points and 16 rebounds in 32 minutes during Sunday’s 120-113 win over the Miami Heat. Antetokoumpo had missed five games before the All-Star break and sat out the All-Star festivities with a left calf strain. Coach...

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French aircraft carrier stages combat drills with...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and accompanying warships were in the Philippines on Sunday after holding combat drills with Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea in a show of firepower that would likely antagonize China. The Charles de Gaulle docked on Friday at Subic Bay, a former U.S. Naval base northwest of Manila, for a break after more than two months of deployment in the Indo-Pacific. The French carrier engaged with security allies for...

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AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing...
President Donald Trump speaks at the Governors Working Session in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Pool via AP) President Donald Trump speaks at the Governors Working Session in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Pool via AP) The Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop...

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Prince William Co. community split on schools’...
Prince William community members clashed at Wednesday night’s school board meeting over questions surrounding the school division’s policy on the treatment of transgender and gender nonconforming students. The discussion was sparked by the announcement of a Department of Education Office of Civil Rights investigation into Prince William County Public Schools — and four other Northern Virginia school divisions — regarding the division’s policy on transgender students and a potential Title IX violation. A conservative legal group, America First Legal,...

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US envoy praises Zelenskyy after Trump’s censure...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia said on Friday that he had held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war with Russia and praised the Ukrainian leader as an “embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war.” Retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg — who traveled to Kyiv on Wednesday and whose planned news conference with Zelenskyy on Thursday was changed at the last minute to...

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Kim Sae-ron’s death underscores the huge pressure...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In the about 1,000 days between her drunken-driving crash in May 2022 and her death, South Korean mainstream news organizations published at least around 2,000 stories on film actor Kim Sae-rom. A quick search in the country’s press database yields a wave of sensational headlines that illustrate how the local media often cover a celebrity’s fall from grace. Previously one of the brightest young stars in South Korean cinema, Kim was condemned and ridiculed...

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A news conference between Zelenskyy and Trump’s...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A news conference that was planned to follow talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was canceled Thursday as political tensions deepened between the two countries over how to end the almost three-year war with Russia. The event was originally supposed to include comments to the media by Zelenskyy and retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, but it was changed at the last minute to a simple photo opportunity...

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Award-winning Vienna restaurant Clarity coming to Reston...
Virginia’s Reston town center.(Courtesy BPX) Virginia’s Reston town center.(Courtesy BPX) Vienna, Virginia, casual fine dining restaurant Clarity, named Upscale Casual Restaurant of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington in 2018, will open a second location at Reston Town Center. Clarity is among a half dozen new restaurants and retailers signing new leases with Reston Town Center owner BPX, formerly Boston Properties. Clarity will open at 1996 Opportunity Way, in ground floor retail space at the new...

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